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Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Az

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Member of the senior leadership team which won Arizona's 11 electoral votes for a Democrat for the first time in 24 years.Built working partnerships with local and state Democratic party leadership and other stakeholders. Worked to ensure message discipline, cooperation, volunteer recruitment, and distribution of campaign materials to every county in Arizona.Oversaw community outreach that identified, vetted, and recruited over 200 individuals with compelling stories to feature in paid advertising.Recruited over 100 local small businesses to publicly endorse the Biden-Harris ticket.Managed the travel and surrogate team, planned Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's trips to Arizona, held over 80 virtual events, and oversaw the transition to in-person campaign activity.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Defeated two high-profile initiatives that would have banned future light rail investment and put a strict cap on city spending.Recruited and managed a bipartisan coalition of 71 stakeholders that opposed Prop 105 & 106, including community groups, business leaders, labor unions, environmental organizations, elected officials, and neighborhood leaders.Developed and executed a campaign strategy that won in all nine Phoenix council districts and all but two precincts citywide.Developed messaging and talking points to combat false information about municipal budgets, pensions, and light rail.Advised and helped build a field coalition that identified over 30,000 voters in four weeks.Creatively utilized SMS texting, social media, social pressure mailing, and field-tested voter contact to beat expectations and drive turnout in an off-year summer city election to a record 200,000 voters.

Phoenix, Az

Successfully navigated more than a million dollars in attack ads against Kate Gallego, securing a 17 percent victory.Managed communications team, finance team, paid field team, volunteer field team, scheduler, and outside consultants.Created and oversaw a $1.2 million campaign budget and campaign strategy.Oversaw fundraising, earned-media efforts, digital advertising, television advertising, and community outreach.Prepared the candidate for debates, interviews, and major speeches.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Member of the senior management team tasked with creating a new department responsible for non-partisan public policy and political advocacy.Managed advocacy infrastructure, budget, senior-level staff, entry-level staff, lobbyists, contract lobbyists, and consultants.Designed and oversaw campaigns that brought together legislative, organizing, communications, and legal strategies.Oversaw the ACLU’s legislative program, including developing and implementing campaign-style advocacy efforts to engage policymakers from both sides of the political aisle, particularly around bipartisan criminal justice reforms.Ran $800,000 communication program to educate voters about ACLU's policy priorities before the 2018 election.

Phoenix, Arizona

Managed the policy team and special projects for the mayor of America's fifth-largest city.Oversaw Mayor Stanton's policy direction to Phoenix's streets, sustainability, planning & development, and gov relations teams.Liaison between Mayor Stanton's office and the Phoenix Planning and Development office, participating in a weekly review of pending and upcoming projects with senior planning staff to prepare for council consideration.Point person for Mayor in his role as Chair of Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) Regional Council, Chair of Arizona Mayors' Education Roundtable, Chair of U.S. Conference of Mayor's Environment Committee.Represented Mayor Stanton at national mayoral coalitions such as Cities Thrive (mental health policy,) Cities for Action (immigration policy,) and Compact of Mayors (climate change.)Oversaw important projects that required careful coalition-building as assigned, such as modernizing police orders, ordinances related to the regulation of group and sober living homes, and high-profile land use cases.

Tempe, Az

Primary policy, political, and communications advisor supporting the mayor of Arizona’s ninth-largest city.Staffed the Mayor and worked with other cities in his role as Chair of the League of Arizona Cities & Towns, Board Member of Valley Metro RPTA, Board Member of Greater Phoenix Economic Council, and Member of MAG Transportation Policy Committee.Created a plan to make Tempe AZ's first "Dementia Friendly City." Oversaw outreach, coalition building, and policy roadmap.Supported Mayor Mitchell's fight against state interference laws such as SB1487.Managed the Mayor's calendar and implemented new processes to ensure all requests were tracked, considered, and responded to in a timely manner.Conducted research on upcoming agenda items as needed and briefed the Mayor to prepare him for Council Meetings.Managed the Mayor's public communications including speech writing, public statements, correspondence, and social media.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Inspire Arizona's mission is to transform young leaders' inspiration into action that improves our communities and strengthens our democracy.Inspire Arizona hosts an annual leadership academy for remarkable high school student leaders designed to educate and motivate them to take action in their own communities. Student leaders who participate in the academy then run a community project of their own design at their high school, register students to vote, and recruit volunteers to support their efforts.About a year after creating Inspire, we began opening projects in other states. First in West Virginia and Kentucky the program has now expanded to several other states.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Oversaw political work and managed political staff for the nation's largest and most recognized grassroots environmental organization.*Developed 2012 campaign plan that included coordinated deployment of 75 staff into federal races, multimillion dollar independent expenditures, and ballot initiatives in multiple states.* Oversaw the monitoring and analysis of all federal races to determine the viability of candidates and select the most impactful races for the organization to invest in.* Worked with advancement and development teams to raise funds from small and large donors for political program. Managed complicated legal compliance for political program which utilized a Super PAC, a member connected PAC, a 527, C4, taxable and non- taxable spending, and a c3.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

* Managed the PAC Director and oversaw his implementation of PAC budget, endorsement process, and chapter support.* Managed a national board of volunteers who were responsible for all federal candidate endorsements and the approval of organizational campaign plans. Assisted in development of federal independent expenditure campaigns.* In 2010, implemented a multi-million dollar voter contact program utilizing direct mail, phones, paid advertising, a comprehensive online voter guide, digital advertising, and paid canvassing.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

The Change that Works Campaign was a massive grassroots campaign to bring together friends, neighbors, coworkers, union members, and elected officials to pass important legislation in the 111th Congress. In Tennessee the campaign focused on Obama's health care agenda, specifically creating quality affordable health care for all Americans.* Managed a Field Director, Communications Director, Political Director, and 18 organizers in three offices.* Identified and mobilized area stakeholders into a highly functioning coalition where one did not exist before.* Interacted with Members of Congress and their staff, and secured the vote of two conservative Democrats, Rep. Jim Cooper on the final bill and Rep. Bart Gordon while the bill was in the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Nashville, Tn

The Change that Works Campaign was a massive grassroots campaign to bring together friends, neighbors, coworkers, union members, and elected officials to pass important legislation in the 111th Congress. In Tennessee the campaign focuses on Obama's health care agenda, specifically creating quality affordable health care for all Americans.

Washington, Dc

Young Democrats of America is the nation’s largest partisan youth organization. Charged with creating a new generation of Democratic voters, the organization focuses on non-student partisan youth turnout campaigns, leadership development, and progressive issue advocacy. The National Political Director is responsible for the planning and implementation of YDA programming and campaigns, management of internal politics, and the development of organizational alliances.

Phoenix, Az

The Arizona Democratic Party pioneered the combination of field operations, neighbor to neighbor organizing, and online grassroots development. Created for the 2004 Coordinated Campaign, the Non-Traditional Campaigns Director was a senior level position responsible for developing and managing efforts to modernize existing field activity while recruiting and training new activists. These days you'd probably call this a digital organizing director, but no such job existed back then.

GenDean was Dean for America’s groundbreaking campaign to organize and turnout young voters. The National Director for Strategies and Resources was responsible for providing existing organizations with the resources required to evolve local chapters from campus and community clubs to field based voter turnout campaigns targeting important early primaries and caucuses.

The BarBri National Student Leadership Foundation hosts conferences for high school leaders to further civic engagement, develop leadership skills, and provide early professional development for various career paths. The Programs Director oversaw recruitment and management of staff, development of curricula, conference logistical planning, and overall success of the conferences.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Political Science

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